Month: November 2024

Researchers have discovered the first evidence that the brightest accretion disks around supermassive black holes “wobble” as their monstrous occupants drag them around.

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) María Fernanda Barbarena-Arias (left), an associate professor of biology and instructor for the OCEANOS internship, stands on the sand…

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Samuel Suleiman, an instructor for the OCEANOS internship, teaches students about sargassum and shore ecology on Culebra Island, Puerto…

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Roy Armstrong, an instructor for the OCEANOS internship and marine sciences professor, pilots a small boat around the cays…

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) OCEANOS PI Juan Torres-Pérez, a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, holds two pieces of cyanobacteria in the…

Reaction Engines Ltd., a British company that has worked for decades on an air-breathing rocket engine for spaceplanes and other hypersonic vehicles, has filed for bankruptcy. The post Spaceplane developer…

One of the most difficult challenges when assembling a telescope is aligning it to optical precision. If you don’t do it correctly, all your images will be fuzzy. This is…

SpaceX plans to launch 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday (Nov. 11).

After more than a decade of waiting for a big-screen project that never materialized, Mass Effect is headed to Prime Video.

Is shaping Star Wars’ next live-action era after the tired Marvel Cinematic Universe the right path forward?